Lord Jones of Birmingham: In 2006-07 the buyout fund was £234,439,084. This was distributed between 28 licensed electricity suppliers. Details of the amount of buyout payments recycled and the names of the companies to who these payments have been made are published by Ofgem each year in the renewables obligation annual report. Copies of these reports can be found at: http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Pages/Morelnformation.aspx?docid=73&refer= Sustainability/Environmnt/RenewablObl. The report for 2006-07 will not be published until early 2008 but details of buyout payments can be found in the Ofgem press release on this matter at http://www.ofgem. gov.uk/Media/PressRel/Documents1/ofgem42.pdf.

Baroness Taylor of Bolton: Since the start of hostilities, there have been 174 UK military fatalities resulting from operations in Iraq and 86 resulting from operations in Afghanistan.
	Between 1 January 2006 and 30 November 2007, centrally held records for Iraq indicate that 292 personnel were admitted to a UK or coalition medical facility having been wounded in action and 2,234 personnel were admitted suffering from disease or non-battle injury.
	Between 1 January 2006 and 30 November 2007, centrally held records for Afghanistan indicate that 307 personnel were admitted to a UK or coalition medical facility having been wounded in action and 721 personnel were admitted suffering from disease or non-battle injury.
	Work is currently in hand to verify and validate information on medical facility admissions prior to January 2006. Once these data have been compiled, they will be added to the Ministry of Defence website.
	All of the above information is published and updated regularly on the Ministry of Defence website at: http://www.mod.uk/Defencelnternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets

Lord Malloch-Brown: There is a pressing need to overcome the obstacles to re-opening Gaza's crossings, for humanitarian goods, trade and people. The quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia) has expressed concern over the continued closure of major crossing points. The UN is actively involved in trying to find a solution. The EU has called "on all parties to work towards an opening of the crossings in and out of Gaza". I refer the noble Lord to the Statement made by my right honourable friends the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for International Development on 30 October detailing our concerns. The text of the Statement can be found at www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029391629&a=KArticle&aid=1193597605085&year=2007&month=2007-10-01.
	My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development discussed the situation in Gaza with the Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, during his recent visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 9 to 11 December.